The following petition has been started by Alicia Ní Ghráinne of the West Cork Green Business Alliance. Alicia is a film-maker who lives in Baltimore, West Cork and is seeking to draw on the support of the Irish community in the … Read More

1. What is Marine Spatial Planning? Marine spatial planning is a process that brings together multiple users of the ocean to make informed and coordinated decisions about how to use marine resources sustain-ably. It is a process by which the … Read More

Here are some of our favourite photos that show off the environment we are seeking to protect. If you read our other articles, you will see how the emissions and waste water from the proposed Thermoplastic Compounds Facility will have … Read More

Overview RTP Company, whose headquarters is in Winona, Minnesota has applied for planning permission to build a Polymer Compounding Facility, under the name of a newly formed subsidiary, Daly Products, on the Baltimore Road Skibbereen. The factory they … Read More

Lorraine Shaab, a frequent visitor to our pages at ‘Save Our Skibbereen’ wrote to us recently about the scourge of Plastic Nurdles on their coastline at Wellington, New Zealand. In 2014, the issue of nurdles at Evans Bay beach, Wellington, … Read More

We’re looking forward to a great day out at Inish Beg Estate on Sunday, September 2nd, from 2pm – 5pm. We are immensely grateful to everyone at Inish Beg and especially Paul and Georgie Keane for their support and generosity … Read More

Fresh air and clean water in Skibbereen, West Cork versus Winona, Minnesota where the quality of air consistently falls below national standards and water quality is impaired. RTP Company, the parent company of Daly Products who hope to build … Read More

(This article is extracted from the EU funded Sea Change Project. Links below. Illustration by Marker Wizards Ltd.) Many of our waste products end up in the sea. This includes visible litter as well as invisible waste such as chemicals … Read More

I recently spent a day watching magnificent Finn Whales off the coast of West Cork with Colin Barnes, ‘Cork Whale Watch’. What a privilege it was to be in the company of these giants, being the second largest animal on … Read More

RTP have opened a new Plastic Factory in Wroclaw, Poland. From their own website, it was announced as follows in February 2018 : “The 8,000 square metre facility, located at Prologis Park V in Wroclaw, has a wide dock area … Read More

What is so interesting about this head line is that it comes from an article in the Irish Times dated Thursday April 7th 2005. A disturbing account of the health hazards of living in the close vicinity of a Plastics … Read More

I’ve been fishing debris out of the river for several years. I began picking up floating trash to make the scenery more appealing to myself and other patrons of Speed River Paddling, a local Guelph kayak/canoe rental company. They used … Read More

Cadmium. How much is too much? Any. Zero cadmium is good for you. Any more than that is bad for you. Really bad. What is Cadmium? Cadmium is a soft, malleable, ductile, bluish-white divalent metal. It is similar in many respects to zinc but … Read More

The above image shows the point of outflow from the waste water treatment plant into the Ilen When an industry (as opposed to residential) discharges to the waste water treatment plant, there are often requirements to licence directly by the … Read More

The pre production polymer pellets or Nurdles get spilled in production, in road transport and in shipping. Each bulk truck can carry about 2 billion nurdles per load. This is such a big problem that the industry itself has an … Read More

The planning application for the Daly Product Polymer Compounding Factory has had no report compiled on it except those that were commissioned on behalf of RTP/Daly Products as part of their submission. No independent study was commissioned on the impact … Read More

The EPA in Ireland in their studies of plastic in the fresh water environment showed how the water slows down as it reaches the lower courses and so many of the plastic nurdles are deposited here, as shown above. These … Read More